Cindy Lamothe

The Guardian

Let's touch: why physical connection between human beings matters

We humans aren’t meant to live in isolation – loneliness has been proven to cause serious repercussions, leading to illness and a 50% increased risk of early death.

In her New York Times Modern Love essay, writer Michelle Fiordaliso makes the case for unexpected moments of intimacy between strangers. “Touch solidifies something – an introduction, a salutation, a feeling, empathy,” she writes.

It turns out that these moments of connection, while fleeting, have a lasting impact on our wellbeing...

The Atlantic

When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life

Laura Kiesel was only six years old when she became a parent to her infant brother. At home, his crib was placed directly next to her bed, so that when he cried at night, she was the one to pick him up and sing him back to sleep. She says she was also in charge of changing his diapers and making sure he was fed every day. For the majority of her early childhood, she remembers that she tended to his needs while her own mother was in the depths of heroin addiction.
From as early as she can reme...

thecut.com

To Get Better at Understanding Other People, Start With Yourself

Most of us spend a lot of time trying to parse out what make us, well, us: We scour the internet for personality quizzes. We ruminate endlessly over the things we’ve said or done. We pick teams — introvert or extrovert? head or heart? — and then filter our decisions through the lens of whatever label we’ve chosen.
If you want to figure yourself out, in other words, there are plenty of strategies within easy reach. Other people, though — that can be a little more of a puzzle. (It’s not like yo...

Healthline

Can a Hot Bath Deliver the Same Results as Exercise?

Visiting a sento is a popular, age-old Japanese practice and tradition. And like forest bathing, it has many health benefits.

Yahoo!

How to set healthy boundaries with your neediest friends, according to therapists

For people in the helping professions — like nurses, counselors, or social workers — boundary-building can be challenging, to say the least. Contrary to the impression that these professional helpers are bottomless vats of compassion and objectivity, they are human beings first, explains psychologist Anjhula Mya Singh Bais.

Healthline

Why Your Hair, Skin, and Nail Vitamins May Not Be Working

They make a lot of claims, but do those claims live up to the science?
We’ve all had a funhouse mirror moment: Standing over our bathroom sink and noticing the way our pores have grown monumentally larger than what we’re comfortable with. Maybe we haven’t been getting enough sleep and there are now bags the size of Oreos under our eyes. It’s like going to the carnival, minus the fun.
As a full-time freelancer and mother to an active toddler, my beauty routine has taken a backseat, to say the ...

Healthline

Is Your Bag Wrecking Your Back?

According to the American Chiropractic Association, about of the U.S. population will have at some point in their lives. “Over time, the amount of strain that we put on our bodies due to oversized bags can cause some pretty serious pain and even long-term issues like muscle spasms or a pinched nerve,” explains Caleb Backe, a health and wellness expert for Maple Holistics.
If you’re experiencing shoulder, back, buttock, and arm pain or tingling in your hands — unhealthy handbag habits could be...

databoundhealthcare.com

3 Ways You Can Save Time with EMUE

We saved hospitals over 1,000,000 hours of work last year. That’s significantly more time spent focusing on positive patient outcomes rather than mundane office tasks.
Automating workflow isn’t only a smart strategy for leveraging technology, it also helps move the needle forward in healthcare. Other research has shown that by freeing staff to focus on improving patient experience, hospitals can increase margins by 50 percent.
Here are 3 ways you can save time with EMUE:
Most hospitals have o...

databoundhealthcare.com

Do Soarian Stream Errors Keep You Up At Night?

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There are many transactions and interfaces for getting data in and out of Soarian® Financials. Sometimes these errors need your attention, which means you have to spend time retrieving that information on a recurring basis.
Currently, there are no model reports that show you transaction errors in Stream. Unfortunately for users and analysts, the manual process to check these interfaces takes up time that you don’t have.
Luckily, Databound Healthcare Solutions is here to help ea...

databoundhealthcare.com

Don’t Forget! 4 Resources That Can Help You Get More Out of EMUE

As the end user for patient financial systems, you understand that limited IT expertise can interfere with the impact of your work. You want an efficient way of automating workflow, fast. “At Databound, we are committed to leading the industry with technology that improves productivity for our customers,” says Eric de Jager, Vice President of Databound Healthcare Solutions.
Part of this means helping hospitals save time and frustration by providing IT teams with the support they need. In this...

databoundhealthcare.com

The Top 10 Things You Can Do with EMUE

Healthcare facilities face enormous amount of paperwork and administrative tasks that can often hinder time spent on patient care. According to a 2017 survey conducted by Deloitte, health systems should consider leveraging technology to enhance revenue, reduce costs, and improve efficiency.

New York Magazine

An Alarming Number of People Don’t Know the Signs of Prescription-Drug Abuse

The authors of a new survey argue that we all need to brush up on our mental-health literacy.

Quartz

Peak Performance: The cognitive trick that elite athletes use to achieve seemingly impossible goals — Quartz

Peak Performance: The cognitive trick that elite at...

New York Magazine

How ‘Intellectual Humility’ Can Make You a Better Person -- Science of Us

How ‘Intellectual Humility’ Can Make You a Better P...

The Huffington Post

Writing Your Own Story Can Protect Your Health After A Breakup | HuffPost

Writing Your Own Story Can Protect Your Health Afte...